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Counterpoint: perhaps it's not about escaping all the details, just the irrelevant ones, and the need to have them figured out up front. Making the process more iterative, an exploration of medium under supervision or assistance of domain expert, turns it more into a journey of creation and discovery, in which you learn what you need (and learn what you need to learn) just-in-time.

I see no reason why this wouldn't be achievable. Having lived most of my life in the land of details, country of software development, I'm acutely aware 90% of effort goes into giving precise answers to irrelevant questions. In almost all problems I've worked on, whether at tactical or strategic scale, there's either a single family of answers, or a broad class of different ones. However, no programming language supports the notion of "just do the usual" or "I don't care, pick whatever, we can revisit the topic once the choice matters". Either way, I'm forced to pick and spell out a concrete answer myself, by hand. Fortunately, LLMs are slowly starting to help with that.

parent TeMPOraL 9 months ago

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